Prisoners on parole to be fitted with alcohol detector tags

CRIMINALS will be banned from drinking alcohol when they are released from
prison as part of a hi-tech revolution in Britain’s jails to be unveiled by
David Cameron tomorrow.

The prime minister will admit that “prison isn’t working” when it comes to
rehabilitation and will announce he is authorising the nationwide rollout of
new GPS tags for those on community sentences which can detect alcohol use
by monitoring perspiration.

Thousands of prisoners will be fitted with tags and told to stay away from
drink as part of the terms of their parole.

In what is billed as the first significant speech by a prime minister on
prisons in 20 years, Cameron will also:

•Tell mobile phone companies to cut off the signal to prisons to prevent
convicts from using illicitly held phones to order drugs

•Announce a rethink of how prisons deal with pregnant women after figures
revealed that 100